Michael Shermer

My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.